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Fortunately, the Milk... by Neil Gaiman

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adventurous funny lighthearted relaxing fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5


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House of Odysseus by Claire North

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adventurous challenging emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5


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Tesladyne Industries Field Guide by Brian Clevinger, Scott Wegener

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adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? N/A
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? N/A
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.25

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

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adventurous mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.25

Down With Skool! by Geoffrey Willans, Ronald Searle

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funny lighthearted fast-paced
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No

3.25

I got a few laughs out of it, but having been born a generation or two later in a far distant country, a lot of the specific things being lampooned don't resonate with me the way they would with someone who'd lived through this kind of schooling and didn't only know it from reading other old books. I'm also a lot more aware of the casual racism, gender policing, bullying, and the violence against children by adult authority figures.

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Ithaca by Claire North

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adventurous challenging emotional medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25


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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

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challenging emotional medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0


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Ribbon Dance by Steve Miller, Sharon Lee

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adventurous emotional hopeful medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.0


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An Author Bites the Dust by Arthur Upfield

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mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0


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The Dragonhiker's Guide to Battlefield Covenant at Dune's Edge: Odyssey Two by David Langford

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funny fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This collection of parodies has not aged well. There's a conspicuous reliance on humor involving drunkenness, sex, and the female anatomy, only some of which can be justified as exaggerations of elements present in the works being parodied. It says something that I laughed harder while reading the foreword than in any of the parodies that followed. The one that worked best for me, foreword aside, was "Lost Event Horizon", possibly because the parameters of the parody dictated a straight-edge hero and an absence of female characters and the author was consequently obliged to come up with some actual jokes.

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